Definizione monolingua

idiom

idiom (plural idioms or idiomata)

1. (now rare) A manner of speaking, a way of expressing oneself.
2. A language or dialect.
3. Specifically, a particular variety of language; a restricted dialect used in a given historical period, context etc.
   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, ""The Other L-Word"", Vanity Fair, 13 Jan 2010:

     Many parents and teachers have become irritated to the point of distraction at the way the weed-style growth of ""like"" has spread through the idiom of the young.

4. An artistic style (for example, in art, architecture, or music); an instance of such a style.
5. An expression peculiar to or characteristic of a particular language, especially when the meaning is illogical or separate from the meanings of its component words.
   • 2008, Patricia Hampl, “You’re History”, in Patricia Hampl and Elaine Tyler May (editors), Tell Me True: Memoir, History, and Writing a Life, Minnesota Historical Society, ISBN 9780873516303, page 134:

     You’re history, we say […] . Surely it is an American idiom. Impossible to imagine a postwar European saying, “You’re history. . . . That’s history,” meaning fuhgeddaboudit, pal.

6. (programming) A programming construct or phraseology generally held to be the most efficient, elegant or effective means to achieve a particular result or behavior.
   • 2005, Magnus Lie Hetland, Beginning Python: From Novice to Professional, ISBN 159059519X, page 100:

     I have to use the same assignment and call to raw_input in two places. How can I avoid that? I can use the while True/break idiom: […]

Definizione dizionario idiom

idioma

	idiotismo
	phrase that cannot be understood from its component words

frase idiomatica

	idiomatismo
	phrase that cannot be understood from its component words

espressione idiomatica

linguaggio

locuzione

modo di dire

Altri significati:

manner of speaking

linguistics: communicative system

(linguistics) A communicative system under study, which could be called either a dialect or a language, when its status as a language or dialect is irrelevant.

A phrase that cannot be fully understood from the separate meanings of the individual words which form it, but instead must be learned as a whole unit of meaning.

An artistic style (for example, in art, architecture, or music); an instance of such a style.

(programming) A programming construct or phraseology generally held to be the most efficient, elegant or effective means to achieve a particular result or behavior.

distinct style of art, etc

An expression peculiar to or characteristic of a particular language, especially when the meaning is illogical or separate from the meanings of its component words.

A manner of speaking, a way of expressing oneself.